The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-05

mepts in these cities building marble
palaces, their owners dying worth mill
ions and millions and millions, who made
vast amount of their estate out OF the
blood, and muscle, and nerve OF half-paid
CLERKS. Such men as-well, | will not
mention any name. But mean men who
have gathered up vast estates at the ex-
peuse of the people who were ground
under their heel
.sOh. ." say such merchants, '1f you don't
like it here, then go and get better
place.
AS much as to say:
s'rve got you in my grip, and mean TO
hold you; you can't get any other place"
O, what a contrast we see between such
men and those Christian merchants OF
Brooklyn and New York who to-day are
sympathetic with their clerks-when they
pay the salary, acting in this way:
This salary that I give you is not all
my interest in you. You are an immortal
man: you are an immortal woman; am
interested in your present and your ever
lasting welfare: want you to understand
that if am little higher up in this
store, am beside you in Christian sym
pathy.n
Go back forty years to Arthur Tappen's
store in New York-a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty
Every morning, he brought all the
clerks, and the accountants, and the
weighers into room for devolons.
They sang They prayed They
exhorted. On Monday morning the clerks
were asked where they had attended
church on the previous day, and what the
sermons were about. 1t must nave
sounded strangely, that voice Of praise
along the streets where the devotees OF
trammon were counting their golden
beads. You say Arthur Tappen failed.
Yes, he was unfortunate, like great
many coed men; bot understand he met
all his obligations before ne lett TINS
world, and l know that he died In the
peace Of the gospel, and that he ls before
the throne of God dto-day-forever blessed
If that be falling l wish that you may all
fail. There are great many young men
in this city-yea, in this housewife want
word OF encouragement, Christian en-
couragemeut One smile of good cheer
would be worth more to them tomorrow
morning in their places of business than
a present OF 81 90 ten years hence.
O, | remember the apprehension and
the tremor of entering profession. re
member very well the man who greeted
me ID the ecclesiastical court with the TIP
ends of the long fin gers of the left hand;
and | remember the other man who took
my hand in both of his and said:
God bless you, my brother; you have
entered glorious profession; be faithful
to God and he will see you through
Why, feel this minute the thrill Of that
handshaking, though the man who gave
me the Christian grip has been in Heaven
twenty-five years. There are old men to-
day who can look back to forty years ago,
uas1 n Y ind IN
Now, old men, pay back what you
got then. It is a great art for old
men to be able to encourage the
young. There are many young people in
our cities who have come from inland
counties of our own State, from the gran
tie hills of the North, from the savannahs
of the South, from the prairies of the
West They are here to get their fort
une. They are IN boarding g-houses where
every body seems to be thinking of him
self. They want companionship, and they
want Christian encourag cement. Give 1t
to them.
NV word is to ali clerks in this house:
Be mightier than your temptations. A
Sandwich Islander used to think when he
slew an enemy all the strength OF that
enemy came into his own right arm. And
| have to tell you that every misfortune
moral power. With omnipotence for a
lever and the throne of God for
fulcrum, you can move earth and
Heaven. While there are other young
men putting the cup of sin to their lips,
| stoop down and drink out of the foun talns
| of God, and YOU will rise up strong &c
| thresh the mountains. The ancients used
to think that pearls were fallen raindrops
| which. touching the surface of the sea,
| hardened into gems, then dropped to the
| bottom. have to tell you to-day that
| storms of trial have showercd imperish-
| able pearls into many young mans lap
| O, young man! while you have goods to
| sell, remember you have soul to save
| In hospital Christian captain, wound
| ed few days before, got delirious, and IN
| the midnight hour he sprang out on the
| floor of the hospital, thinking be was IN
| the battle, crying
Come on, boys! Forward. Charge"
All he was only battling the specters
| of his own brain. But it is no imaginary
conflict into which call you, young man,
| to-day There are ten thousand spiritual
foes that would capture you. In the name
| of God up and at them. After the last
| store has been closed, after the last bank
| has gone down, after the shuttle of the
| quick feet on the custom-house steps has
stopped, after the long line of merchant
| men on the sea have taken sail or flame,
| after Brooklyn and New York and London
| and Vienna have gone down into the grave
where Thebes and Babylon aud Tyre lay
| buried, after the great fire bells Of the
Judgment Day have tolled at the burning
! of world on that day, all the affairs Of
| the banking houses and stores will come
up for inspection.
o, What an opening of account books
| Side by side, the clerks and the men who
| employed them-the people who owned
| footing with the Stewarts, and the Della
nos, and the Abbotts, and the Barings.
| Every invoice made out-all the labels of
| goods, all certificates of stock, all lists of
prices, all private marks of the firm, now
explained so every body can understand
them. All the maps of cities that were
| never built, but in which lots were sold.
| All bargains. All gougings All snap
| judgments. All false entries. All adulter
alton of liquors with copperas and strych-
nine. All mixing of teas, and sugars, and
| coffees, and sirups, with cheaper material.
| All embezzlements of trust funds. All
swindles in coal, and iron, and oil, and sill
| yer, and stocks. On that day, when. the
| cities of this world are smoking in the
| last confiagration, the trial will go on !;
| aud down in an avalanche of destruction
| will go those who wronged nina or
| woman, insulted God and defied- the judg-
meat. a
! U. that will be great day for you, hon
| est Christian clerk No getting up early; :;
| no retiring late; no walking around with